I sure am not one for political rants, I actually avoid the topic. These days its really hard to avoid. Thinking of Duffy and Wallen. We're we not staring at them both for like 20+ years on our nightly news as they reported on the nasty, no good, low down snakes in the grass politicians in Ottawa? Wasn't it these two who we trusted for our reflections on the important goings on across this great land of ours? Didn't we see "Duff" at least weekly telling Loydd (Robertson) about that crooked absentee Senator who was only present in the Senate 26 days of the year and the balance in his Mexican villa on taxpayers dime? It's one thing to be a politician turned Senator, it's quite another to have been a pundit who becomes a Senator and sets new standards of corruption.I'm not even touching the whole pension aspect (stay calm, stay calm, 123456...)I wonder if Duff and Wallen's old bosses at the news desk are wondering about the expense accounts these two had while in their employ? Supposed pillars of our society, made of poor cement. Shame!

This is me at Holly and Roy's cottage painting sketch canvases of Canoe Lake in the summer of 2011.

This sketch above became this finished painting below

The Pine Tree Painter.

How did I become known as the Pine Tree Painter? You could say I paint a lot of Pine Trees, that would be true. I paint a lot of other things too, but Pine Trees, Spruce Trees, Birch and others seem to be a continuous string in what i do. I just like the way they stand there like a custodian of the land. or a greeter to nature. So, I continue down the path with the Pine Tree Painter name on my head, It's ok. Robert McAffee